The paper presents the first European records of the copepod (Crustacea, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) Skistodiaptomus pallidus in shallow eutrophic waters indirectly connected with the Weser River, Northern Germany. Its original distribution is in the Mississippi basin of the United States of America. It is probable that this species entered the Weser River via ship ballast.
Short communicationCommon snook [Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792)] preys on the invasive Amazon sailfin catfish [Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Castelnau, 1855)] in the Palizada River, Campeche, southeastern Mexico
Between June 2012 and January 2013, nine specimens of the giant tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798 were caught off the Mexican Gulf coast. The average total length of these specimens was 28.1 cm. This is the first record of this invasive shrimp on the Mexican Gulf coast. The appearance of this shrimp species is a concern because of the effects it could produce on the Gulf coast ecosystem.
Resumen. Se analizó el comportamiento de la abundancia, la relación peso-longitud y el índice gonadosomático de Pterygoplichthys pardalis en el río Palizada en Campeche, México. Se realizaron muestreos mensuales de junio de 2008 a mayo de 2009 con redes agalleras. Se colectaron 118 plecos cuyas tallas estuvieron entre 222 y 422.5 mm de longitud total (LT) y un peso de 72.8 a 385.4 g. El periodo de mayor abundancia se presentó de junio a agosto, no hubo diferencias significativas de la abundancia en diferentes periodos del día (p≤ 0.05). Se observó que el índice de abundancia está correlacionado con el nivel del río y el índice gonadosomático. El índice gonadosomático muestra que la época de reproducción se presenta de mayo a agosto; sin embargo, se encontraron hembras con gónadas bien desarrolladas durante todo el año de muestreo. Los parámetros de la relación peso-longitud para ambos sexos son: b= 2.78 y a= 0.0003. La comparación de esta relación entre ambos sexos no resultó significativa (p≤ 0.05). Es necesario realizar esfuerzos para la erradicación de este pez por medio de incentivos a pescadores durante el periodo de mayor vulnerabilidad y de mayor actividad reproductiva.
Summary
Length–weight relationships (LWR) were calculated for 18 species representing 11 families of fishes. A total of 958 fish specimens from the southwestern Terminos Lagoon, Campeche (Mexico), several of which had none or few LWRs available in FishBase, were sampled (except December) using a shrimp otter trawl net from September 2003 to August 2004. Sample sizes ranged from seven Mugil curema and Archosargus probatocephalus individuals to 250 Eugerres plumieri.
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